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the size of their own numbers to carry it
through.
No greater mistake can be made. And
the men only realize it after they have gone
on such strike, when they find they need
funds, discipline and experience as well as
numbers.
The possession of all these elements ena-
bles the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers to win victory after victory. The want
of them resulted in the defeat of the tele-
graphers, though backed by the Knights of
Labor.
To members we say: Avoid strikes, wait,
have patience, organize more thoroughly,
discipline your forces. When you move let it
not be too early in the season. May 1 is
early enough; then if you go for more pay
go for twenty-five cents more at time.
Don't be too greedy or you may get beaten.
Don't publish any notice of your demands in
the daily papers, or it will food your city
with idle men; not alone that, it discourages
building. The better plan is to send out
committee, canvass the sentiment of your
employers, reason with them, and by mode
rate demands and sensible action you can
win them over. If you cannot send out a
committee then mail them circular letter,
but committee is the more preferable.
Weigh well these words; the older unions
of our brotherhood know full well their i'm
portance,
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-23
Cheviots, Homespuns, WOrsteds.

In these cloths made by mills of establish
ed eputation-American, Harris, Broad
brook, Riverside, Rock, Sawyer, and others
are the styles of suits worn by the major
ity Of well dressed men and young men.
They are light yet firm in texture, and ad-
mirably adapted to sprng-summer wear
to long and even wear. In manufacture
they are equal to any, and include checks,
stripes, broken plaids, plain black cork
screws, serges, silk mixtures. Prices, $40,
$12, s13, SIS, $18. $50, $e2, $93, S94, $25,
S29, $50. Coats cut Prince Albert style, f.
button cut-away frocks, double breasted
sacks, straight sacks, 4-button sacks, and
English frocks.
Spring Overeoats, of exceptional quality
and desirabiIitv at $3.50 to $25 Boys' N.
Y. suits So so to s22.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-23
COMMUNICATIONS.
Thoughts on the Situation.


To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
What the masses of our working people
want is to be able to work for the best pay
they can get with perfect freedom. 1t is un-
American to tell men who they shall or shall
not work for, or who, if employers, they
shall or shall not employ. 1t is simply the
essence of tyranny.
The employers are as much workingmen
asithe employees and they are not always to
be envied.
tive blessing. 1t is the law of God and ma
ture, and the men or women who live in
idleness are to be pitied, however rich they
may be.
The man who will net work, but says the
world owes him living, tells an untruth, and
if he was honey bee instead of being in the
form of man his fellow bees would soon
dispose of him as drone they would not
tolerate
Employers and employees should work for
each others interests. The workman should
be as careful of his employers interests as
he would be of his own. The employer
ought to be as mindful of and as generous
with his help as though they were his own
brothers and sisters. In other words, live
and practice pure Christianity. AS man
prospers and begins to make money let him
divide one-half of his net profits with his
help at the end of every year, as some are
now doing-God bless them.
In my opinion, no man ought ever to be
worth million dollars. While they have a
legal right, they have not moral right to
accumulate and hold SO large sum of mon
ey, and these large fortunes are, in my opin-
ion, the curse of the world.
Now to bless both the rich and poor [
would tax large incomes beginning with one
per cent. on the amount above -- dollars
and increase the tax for every thousand dol
lars increase of income until it reached large
percentage incomes of one hundred thou
sand dollars and upwards.
Such tax would greatly relieve the tax on
real estate and make it more of an induce
ment for working people to provide home
for themselves, and once let the working peo-
pie live in a home of their own, you have
gone long way towards making them
better law-abiding citizens, and
a home means law and order. Do not mis-
understand me; 1 believe the working people
are to-day as good morally and religiously as
any class of our citizens, but we all might be
better than we are.
While we take money from the rich in the
way of taxation for the benefit of the poor
we do not harm, but bless them; for the
man who is the possessor of millions of dol
lars is no more to be envied than the mon
arch who sits upon precarious throne.
If we cannot pity, do not envy them, but
let our motto be live and help others to live.
d.
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Saturday, April 23, 1ss7.
THE COTTON SEED OIL TRUST.

COTION SEED OH TA USTs
The charges brought by Attorney General
Cunningham of the State of Louisiana against
the Cotton Seed Oil Trust are pretty serious
ones. He sets forth that the objects and
purposes of the association known as the
American Cotton Oil Trust are: First, to OBJ
tain possession and control Of all the cotton
seed oil mills organized and operating in the
southern States, and especially within the
State of Louisiana; second. to depreciate the
value of cotton seed, and to enhance the
price of the manufactured products thereon;
third, to prevent shipments of cotton seed on
common carriers to any other mills or per-
sons engaged in the purchase or manufacture
thereof, except the mills controlled and run
by the said Oil Trust; fourth, to escape and
avoid the payment of taxes and support of
the government, both municipal and State.
He points out that large majority of the
inhabitants of Louisiana are engaged in the
production of cotton. Their welfare and
happiness, as we'll as that of the State, in
great measure depend upon the prosperity of
the agricultural industry employed in its
cultivation for preparing the same for mar
ket. That cotton seed had become prior to
the advent of the Cotton Oil Trust monopoly
a valuable commercial product and was sell
ing at from $13 to $14 per ton, but since the
monopoly has obtained possession and con-
troll of the several cotton seed oil mills, The
price has deprecated to from 81 to So per
ton by the fraudulent acts and doings of the
American Cotton Oil Trust; while the cotton
growers have thus suffered irreparable I'M ju1y
and damage, manufactured products made
from the cotton seed by the mills controlled
and operated by said Trust have increased at
least 80 per cent. in price.
The Attorney General further alleges that
the Cotton Oil Trust, although a foreign as
sociation, carries on business in the State of
Louisiana without having any place of bust
ness therein or any known agent upon whom
process may be served, that said concern is
engaged in issuing fictitious stock, and, petit
toner is informed, has issued some $34, ,000,-
900 of stock certificates and sold or exchang-
ed the same for property less than O,OOO,-
900 in value, and the stock thereof is con-
stantly increasing; that the American Cotton
Oil Trust has obtained no license or permit,
has paid no taxes to the State or city govern
ment and is without right to carry on busi-
ness in the State.
The New Orleans Picayune charges that
Attorney General Cunningham in making
this move is acting in the interest of stock
jobbers. But he does not seem to be dis
turbed by this charge, and he has the hearty
support of the New Orleans States, and of
those who have suffered from the operations
of the monopoly.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.


Employers are doing good deal of strik-
ing nowadays.
San Francisco is far distant from Rhode
Island, and the San Francisco Alta remarks
that it is instructive that as soon as Rhode
Island quit drinking the State became Dem
ocratic.
Arbor day has become very popular and
useful institution in some of the western
States In Kansas, last Thursday, it is esti-
mated that ], 1000, 900 trees were planted. In
Nebraska, once treeless, about 100000 acres
of trees have been planted since the settle
ment of the State.
Walking delegates are not omnipotent in
New York. One of them entered building
the other day to see if any non-union men
were employed there and when ordered out
struck the man who gave the order. He was
fined fifty dollars and sentenced to the city
prison for fifteen days.
The Massachusetts, senate has killed the
bill to restrict licenses to sell liquor to GER
tain ratio to population. The bill as it passed
the House-.only permitted one license to every
500 people. The senate unanimously allowed
Boston, by amendment, one license to every
$50 people, which would give the city 1000
licenses against 1880 actually issued last
year. The vote upon the bill, both upon its
passage to a third reading and upon recon-
sideration, was tied and President Boardman
both times voted in the negative.
Many efforts have been made in vain in
recent years to introduce the one-cent piece
into common use in the South. The New
Orleans Times Democrat recalls the fact that
several years ago "a newspaper imported
some barrels of the coins and put them forth,
only to find out that they returned in very
short time" At last the despised coin is
reported to be winning favor in New Orleans.
The Times Democrat declares that "a large
number of houses are now willing to accept
it and make their change accordingly and the
public is beginning to recognize that the cent
is of some value after all. Strange to say, as
at the beginning of this movement the small
dealers still hold back"
Some valuable improvements have been
made i'll the manufacture of asbestos paint in
England. In the tests made of its efficiency
piece of light pine wood about six inckes
long by four inches square, painted with FIVE
coats, was placed for upward of half an hour
in an ordinary CRATE fire, but, although the
wood within was reduced to charcoal, there
was no blaze whatever emitted during the
charring. Again, small model theater,
built of wood, with set scenes and accessories,
was sprinkled with turpentine and set on
fire; every portion ignited and the whole was
consumed. A similar model, with the set
scenes and the wood framing all painted with
asbestos, was drenched with turpentine and
set fire to, but the thin scenes were only par
TALLY charred at the lower ends with the tur-
pentine flames, while the timbering was not
even ignited.
Father Phelan, in the Western Watchman
of St. Louis, makes the following pointed
remarks: In Chicago and New York nearly
all the boodlers are Irish Catholics. It Is
shameful; but what are we going to do about
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ita We must put in mild disclaimer right
here. These ballot-stufing and boodling
Irish Catholics never go to church. The
ballot-burglars of st. Louis are our parish
hoodlums. They never go to church and
their Sundays are spent in saloons or driving
their bloated Molls along the frequented
thoroughfares. The ballot-burglars are a
more cowardly and dirtier race of peniten-
tiary birds; nothing more. The priests do
not speak of the crime of ballot-stuf6ng any
more than they do of burglary, for the very
good reason that the ballot-stafers, like the
burglars, never come within ear-shot of the
pulpit.
The International Working Peoples associ-
alton, an anarchist society of Chicago, has
disbanded. 1t had been large and powerful
organization. Many real workmen had joined
it, deluded by the plausible sophisms and
enticed by the fervid appeals of the anarch-
lists. But these had been dropping away
lately, seeing that its aims were impractical
BILE and ruinous to their own interests
if they could be realized. Tues
day evening what remained of the
association, about fifty men, assembled
Jacob Gruneberg, who had been leader
among them, advised that they should listen
to ga conservative friend" who said, in sup
port of a motion to disband: "You have no
organ; your name is mentioned with horror
and contempt even by workingmen. If the
lives of the eight convicted men now in the
County Jail are dear to you, disband and let
all past experiences be forgotten forever
The motion was carried without further op-
position.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-23
Personal Affraefiveness

Now claims attention Of old and young. The
people do feel better, enjoy life more in
shapely, and comfortable dress, and all are
now searching for it, for it is affirmed D. the
weather prophets that winters last snow
sift was parting touch.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-23
A Labor organs Advice to Working
men.
From the Carpenter

Er ToE1 inc SdIpSutcr.t
The greatest dangers with new unions, and
are prone to engage in useless strikes.
When the men get together and see a crowd
they are apt to be carried away by false no.
tions of their own power; they imagine all
they have to do is to make demand and by
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Employers are doing good deal of strik-
ing nowadays.
San Francisco is far distant from Rhode
Island, and the San Francisco Alta remarks
that it is instructive that as soon as Rhode
Island quit drinking the State became Dem
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Arbor day has become very popular and
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States In Kansas, last Thursday, it is esti-
mated that /, 900, 900 trees were planted. In
Nebraska, once treeless, about 100000 acres
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Walking delegates are not omnipotent in
New York One of them entered building
the other day to see if any non-union men
were employed there and when ordered out
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fined fifty dollars and sentenced to the city
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put on above the falls of st. Anthony, t.nd
the little Anson Northrup made regular trips
on Red river, into Manitoba. There is now
q fine fleet of light draught steamers on lower
Red river, Lake Winnipeg and the Sas-
katchewan; but Oh the upper Mississippi and
Missouri, the Illinois, etc., the frequent rail
road bridges show that steamboats, are a
secondary consideration. From st. Louis to
New Orleans, however, the traffic is still i'm
mense; in the busy season seven largo steam
ers week pass regularly from st. Louis to
Memphis and return, and the Memphis and
st. Louis Packet company still carries down
near 100000 tons Of freight yearly, and car
ries up some 10000 to 10000 bales of Gotten.
The Great Republic, of which we present an
engraving, is, or was, the largest steamer On
western waters-plying OH tho lower Missis-
sippi-and so luxuriously furnished that
travel on it was perpetual delight. And at
the close Of these seventy years of develop
ment and decline comes now the interstate
commerce bill, which bids fair to give river
transportation 1boost," temporary though
IL may be.
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The largest and finest boat called the
Seneca Chief, was drawn by four richly
caparisoned gray horses, and carried Gov
crnor De Witt Clinton, Lieutenant Governor
James Tallmadge, Gen. Stephen Van Renssc-
laer and other officials Another boat, Noah's
Ark, carried live and stuffed specimens of
nearly all the animals of the then "wild west"
"a bear, two fawns, eagles and fur bearing
animals, besides two young Seneca Indians in
their native costume. From Albany to New
York the fiotilla was towed by the Chancel-
lor Livingston, the great Hudson steamer of
that time Before daylight Of Nov. it
neared the city; then all the cannon doomed,
the bells rang and the population fastened to
the wharf. The receiving steamers, beauti-
fully decorated, took the officials on board
All the vessels in the harbor Of oil nations
gave loud welcome from their cannon, and
with impressive ceremonies the keg of Lake
Erie water was poured into the bay by Gov
ernor Clinton as an emblem Of completed
commercial union.
And the canal did all that was expected OF
it and much more; for tho statistics show
clearly that New York city had been slowly
falling behind Philadelphia and that there
after She went forward so rapidly that tho
latter soon ceased to be considered FORM
idaljle rival. In 1870 Philadelphia was so per
cent. larger than New York; in 1920 it had
$4,000 people to New York's ls3,OOO, and
was again gaining in trade; but in 1860 tho
latter, including Brooklyn, had 1,076,OOO to
Philadelphias 565,0O0-then came the rail.
.--.| -ra The canal was financial success
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ELEVATORS AT BUFFALO.

come almost entirely a national affair; for,
though the produce transported in the early
years of the canal was more than four-ffths
from New York, in later years less than one
fifth is from her farms, the central west con-
tributing all the rest. At present the con-
flicting schemes are reduced to two; one to
only enlarge the canal sufficient for steam
navigation, the other to recreate it, so to
speak, into regular ship canal.
The history, development and comparative
decline Of the Erie canal form romantic
chapter in the annals Of commerce 1t is idle
to inquire who first suggested it, for the
Topography is so obviously suitable for a
canal that the idea must have occurred to
thousands on first seeing the country; but
Gov. De Witt Clinton was the first public
man to thoroughly identify himself with it.
"Clinton's Big Ditch" was long a political
joke in New York; but he lived to see the
ditch great highway and turn the laugh OIL
his critics. Plans for improving the Mohawk
were laid before the colonial assembly Of New
York in 1725, and renewed occasionally till
1899, when the Western Inland Navigation
company was incorporated, with power to
improve that stream and connect it by canals
with Lakes Seneca and Ontario. After
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in the race Early DR.. E. D. sTANDlFohD.
in July the doctor married Miss Laura Scott,
a young lady of Paducah. Some days after
he was taken with slight illness, but treated
it with indifference, and physicians were not
called till four days before his DEATH Neither
he nor his family had any idea of his danger
till a few hours before his death.
DR.. Standiford was native Of Kentucky;
and though his parents were excellent people
and of high social rank, they were reduced to
poverty about the time of his birth, so, as
early as he was able to do any work. he was
put in the employ of the wealthy Phillips
family near Louisville The sons of the fam
lily were rather naughty and thoughtless
set, and treated him harshly; and once in
fit Of anger he told them he would one day
own all they now considered their own.
That prophecy was literally fulfilled; for the
boys wasted their patrimony and DR.. Stan
diford became its owner, including several
thousand acres adjoining what is now the
southern l,oundaryof Louisville. He showed
great business ability at an early age; saved
his earnings as laborer, invested them ju-
diciously, and was considered well to do at
thirty. Thereafter all he touched seemed to
turn to money. He bought largely in the
Louisville and Nashville railroad at low fig
ures, and sold out the day the stock touched
its highest point - 165. He bought the
majority of shares in the L., N. A. and G.
road at an average of 20, and afterwards
sold at 11O. He was once president Of the
Louisville and Nashville road, and later
director of the Farmers and Drovers' bank;
besides he was farmer on an extensive scale
and conducted other business enterprises
His wealth is popularity estimated at 3,OOO,-
900, though estates usually shrink below this
supposed value in settling. He leaves seven
children, five of his first wife and two of his
second, the latter and 10 years of age. His
third marriage attracted much attention,
the bride, daughter of merchant in Padu-
cab, being very handsome and intelligent and
but 20 years old After shree weeks married
life she is q widow. DR.. Standiford was for
many years before his death a sort of politi-
cal autocrat in Louisville; he had himself
elected to congress for two terms, and only
quit political life to take control of the L..
and n railroad His death renders the re-
election of Senator Beck certainty.